Improvement in cock-eyes for harness



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Winesses:

Invenor:

iniird states LYNDON WortsTEnoFsYRAcUsE, NEWYOR'K..

g Letters .Patent No. 93,788, dated ugust 17, 1869.

rMPRcfW-n,lyrrnv'rl IN cock-EYES ron HARNESS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of`the'same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LYNDON Wonsrnn, of Syra-`cuse, in the countyl of Onondaga, and State of New York, -have inventeda new aud improved Cock-Eye thoses'killed in the artlto make and use thesame,.

reference being'bad to the accompanying drawings, forming Apartvof thisspecification, in which- Figure -l is-aside vieW- of my invention, and

Fignre'2 v is a sectional View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention `consistsin constructing the eye of a Vcock-eye insuchfrnanner as to becapable of taking the form of ahool'while beingattached to or detached from the Whifiletree; itotheiwise having all thepropcities of an ordinary cock-eye, as hereinafter more fully described.I

1n the accompanying dra\vings A is the trace or tug; A

B b b is the frame ofthe cock-eye; and

D is its eye o1' hook. n

The hook I) is formed ina separate piece from the fraineB, and has ashoulder and small ,shank, d, iig. 2, which occupy a chamber, c, in thesaid frame.-

The end of the shank d passes entirely through the frame B, and awasher, g, is placed on the end ofthe shank to form a head,` and issecured in placeby upsetting the head of the shank.

The frame B has a recess formed by the lip Aor4 projection b',witlrwhich the point of the hook engages.

. To open the hook it isl pressed inward, the collar d being forced intothe chamber c until the point of the hook clears the catch b ;vthe hookis then turned sidewise, and is open. p

To close it, the hook is pressed in as before, and the point of the hookdropped into the recess` or catch b. I e

The chamber c contains a spiral spring, e, which holds the point of.'the hook'engaged with catch b.

These cock-eyes can be used with an-ylnud of whifetree, but they aredesigned to be used with a whifet-ree having eye-bolts instead of hooks;aml when used in such connection, are entirely free 'from liability tobecome detached incidentally.

' e Having thus described my invention,

j What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Leif ters Patent, is-

. AA cock-eye, composed-.of frame B b c, and spring- -.hook or'eyeD d, ysubstantially as hereindescribed.

` lheabove speciiication of inyinvention signed byV me, this 18th day ofMarch, 1869.

L. WORSTER.

Witnesses:

WM. J. DODGE, F. A. MoRLEY.

